The World of Flo by

Melbourne VIC

soniawilkie — 2024-01-11 00:36:06 UTC

Sonia Wilkie (electronics)

Sonia Wilkie is a researcher, sound designer, and educational technologist. She joined G.Hack and FLO whilst undertaking her PhD at Queen Mary, University of London where she met like-minded musicians and researchers. Her current research in Human-computer interaction investigates educational technologies and their impact on student engagement and success. Her musical interests range from classical performance on the flute, to live coding electronica and digital sonic arts.

Zadar, Croatia

soniawilkie — 2024-01-11 00:48:36 UTC

Nela Brown (Soundscapes and electronics; founder and creative director of FLO), is an award-winning sound artist, technologist, researcher and lecturer with a background in classical music, jazz, sonic arts, engineering and human-computer interaction. In the past decade, she composed music and designed sound for award-winning international projects including theatre performances, dance, mobile, film, documentaries and interactive installations. From 2011-2016, she was the Chair of G.Hack (an arts & technology lab for female researchers at QMUL), from 2011-2012 she was the Chair of WISE@QMUL (Women in Science and Engineering Society). From 2013-2019 she was part of the BCSWomen Committee. In 2013, she received a prestigious Highly Commended WISE Leader Award from HRH The Princess Royal. In 2014 she was profiled as part of the British Computer Society (BCS) national ‘Women in IT’ Campaign and started the Female Laptop Orchestra (FLO) project. Nela is a (founder) member of the Association of Sound Designers (UK) and OISTAT Sound Design Group (worldwide), and regularly speaks at symposiums, conferences and technology events (Music Tech Fest, Sonar, Digital Shoreditch, WSD, Campus Party, Maker Faire etc.) on topics related to sound design for different media, co-located and distributed collaborative music making and hack culture. She is currently doing her PhD in HCI and teaching courses in Transmedia and Creative Coding at the University of Greenwich in London, UK.

http://www.nelabrown.com/

Valencia, Spain

soniawilkie — 2024-01-11 00:54:45 UTC

Rosario Domingo (Flute and electronics) is a musician and multimedia artist from Valencia. She develops her artistic practice in the area of sound, audiovisual and graphic art, a field in which her personal interests and her academic training converge. She has recently carried out several artistic residencies for the City Council of València, investigating the relationship between sound and image, as well as the synergies between art and science. She has developed the process and exhibited the results in different venues in the city, in educational environments and in multiple conferences (CEIP Benimàmet, La Mutant, Espai Jove VLC, Veles e Vents, Teatre El Musical and Radiocity, among others). In addition, her works have been exhibited and awarded prizes in various competitions. She also participates in several training programmes. As a musician, she is a flautist and a member of different groups in the Valencian Community, with whom she has released two albums. She currently collaborates with the Soundcool project of the Universitat Politècnica de València and works as a graphic designer in the València City Council.

Palermo, Italy

soniawilkie — 2024-01-11 00:55:16 UTC

Maria Mannone (Flute, trumpet, piano, percussion) is a physicist and a composer, and she’s developing interdisciplinary research between mathematics and music. She earned her Master in Theoretical Physics; and Masters in Composition, Conducting, and Piano in Italy. In Paris, at IRCAM – UPMC Paris 6 Sorbonne, she earned her Master 2 ATIAM in Acoustics, Signal Processing, and Informatics applied to Music. In the US, at the University of Minnesota, she earned her Ph.D. in Composition. Her musical compositions have been performed by the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, and during the Festival delle Orestiadi di Gibellina and the Arts Quarter Festival at the University of Minnesota. She’s active as a composer and as an improviser.

mariamannone.com

https://soundcloud.com/maria-mannone

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-uwI6_jVImSuz12sDObCw

Warsaw, Poland

soniawilkie — 2024-01-11 00:55:46 UTC

Magdalena Chudy (Cello and electronics) is a researcher, music technologist, computer scientist and cellist. She holds a PhD in electronic engineering from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL/C4DM). She also has a MSc in computer science and MA in performance. Her research has been focused on player-dependent aspects of musical timbre, with a particular interest in exploring the relationship between instrumental gesture, tone quality and perception in classical cello performance. As a cellist, she worked for musical theatre as well as collaborated with a number of chamber ensembles and orchestras across Poland. Her current artistic practice includes live improvisation and sound processing in search for new sonic experiences on such classical instrument as the cello. While in QMUL, Magdalena was involved in Women in Science and Technology focus groups such as WISE@QMUL and G.Hack. http://magudy.wordpress.com/

Porto Seguro, State of Bahia, Brazil

soniawilkie — 2024-01-11 00:56:37 UTC

Ariane Stolfi (Voice and electronics) is an architect, designer, programmer and musician, transits between languages and disciplines. Doctorate candidate in Sonology in the Music Department of the University of São Paulo (USP), and Master graduate in Architecture and Design (FAU-USP). She is researching interactive interfaces on web technologies, currently at Queen Mary University of London at the Centre for Digital Music. She participated in several festivals and events such as SHA, Submidialogias, Dis Experimental, ¿Música?, Virada Cultural, Bigorna, Improvise, Circuito de Improvisação Livre, Amostra Sonora, Áudio Insurgência, Web Audio Conference and Audio Mostly. She develops interactive installations and performances, maintains the finetanks.com experimental net label and collaborates with the Sonora feminist collective and with the Orquestra Errante free improvising group.

Montreal, QC, Canada

soniawilkie — 2024-01-11 01:07:32 UTC

FLO & Friends: Telematic City Jam – Prague, Prague Quadrennial 2023, Sound Kitchen, Prague, Czech Republic.

11 June 2023

FLO: Nela Brown (HR), Magdalena Chudy (PL), Maria Mannone (IT), Ariane Stolfi (BR), Sonia Wilkie (AU)Roser Domingo Muñoz (SP). A telematic audio-visual performance in which a soundscape composition (consisting of field recordings captured in Zadar) served as an inspiration for a real-time audio-visual improvisation in which sonic textures of cello, voice, piano, flute, trumpet, percussion and environmental loops were streamed from multiple global locations (Warsaw, Palermo, Porto Seguro, Melbourne and Valencia), assembled, mixed and spatialised in real-time in Prague (by Robin Whittaker using TiMax immersive audio system) as well as streamed (for the online audience) to YouTube.